What form would you like the answer to be in? Are you asking for a common expression, like an idiom, or just a sentence?
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DanielDec 12 '11 at 1:26

@Daniel Ideally, something the programmer could say in one short sentence in my first example.
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ShawnDec 12 '11 at 1:39

'Ease', not 'easiness' is the preferred noun corresponding to 'easy'.
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MitchDec 12 '11 at 21:38

Also, help in phrasing is not particularly on topic here. If you ask 'How can one say X with the following -language- properties (not content), then it might be on topic. Or maybe you want synonyms for 'ease', 'quality' but with ...actually you haven't specified anything, what are you asking here for then?
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MitchDec 12 '11 at 21:41

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@Mitch Thanks, I knew there was something wrong there! Also, I'm not looking for someone to write a sentence for me, I'm looking for a common way of expressing something. As you can see, my accepted answer is not a full blown sentence, but rather the idiom I was looking for: Cutting corners.
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ShawnDec 12 '11 at 22:03

Interesting remark, I'll see if I can use this somehow in my context, +1
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ShawnDec 12 '11 at 1:37

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If you need to explain yourself to management, you might want to use the term "technical debt" because that makes them think of money...
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Tim PietzckerDec 12 '11 at 11:11

Actually the correlation between easiness and quality if much more complex. What you talk about (and mostly OP) is the: easiness ~ substandard approximations ~ low quality, but there is also easiness ~ simplicity ~ higher quality. I think Einsten sums it up pretty well: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." There you can substitute easy for simple and still have meaningful thought.
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UnreasonDec 12 '11 at 13:34

@TimPietzcker "technical debt" sounds a fit. You might want to post it as a separate answer here and expect at least one upvote from me :)
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Terry LiDec 12 '11 at 14:43

"Minimizing technical debt" might also be a useful term for making this approach palatable for management.

The idea behind this is that cutting corners now will lead to problems in the future (e. g. maintainability, bugs, lack of scalability...) which will then cause higher expenses, just like you have to repay a monetary debt (plus interest).

Well-crafted and quality-made refer to work done with close attention to high quality; well-crafted ties in with craftsmanlike, "characteristic of a craftsman", a skilled person who displays great dexterity.

Painstaking and diligent characterize careful work habits. Painstaking is an adjective meaning "carefully attentive to details; diligent in performing a process or procedure".

Does Painstaking have a negative connotation?
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ShawnDec 12 '11 at 3:06

All of the book links from ngrams that I looked at show painstaking with positive connotation. Note, some of the synonyms (precise, meticulous, careful, scrupulous) from Roget's may be of interest too, particularly meticulous.
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jwpat7Dec 12 '11 at 3:17